## 8.6 Definition of Done In an iterative and incremental development environment, the development team has to agree on the conditions that must be satisfied for a given Work Item to be considered complete. An agreed-upon "Definition of Done" (DoD) consists on a set of items that the Agile Team Members (ATeMs) check to determine if an implemented Work Item complies with the team's quality standards. The DoD should result from the development team’s discussion and agreement of what "done" means in the context of a project. In some organisations, a common "definition of done" may be available and can be applied by different development teams, moving towards cross-project understanding of what "done" means for the organisation. Any Agile Project Core Team (A-PCT) benefits from having a DoD for their Work Items because it also brings the notion of quality outputs into the development cycle and reduces the likelihood of having problems (e.g. defects) in a later stage of the information system lifecycle.